House Democrats push for vote on Medicaid reauthorization bill

Expansion plan brings showdown

9:54 PM,
Feb. 18, 2013

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House Democrats on Monday were filing resolutions calling on the GOP leadership to allow a vote on the Senate Medicaid reauthorization bill Republicans killed late last week.

House Democrats and Republicans are in a standoff over Medicaid, with each side accusing the other of threatening to shut the program down if it's not reauthorized by July 1.

Democrats want to expand Medicaid to cover an additional 300,000 people, mostly the "working poor," as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. Republicans say federal funding of the expansion would be fleeting, and an expansion would ...